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This film began with a joke. My partner, Jack, said his biggest regret was not attending the Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest. The answer was meant to be funny, but it revealed something more serious beneath it. Jack is constantly compared to Timothee Chalamet, and that comparison has become part of how others see him. Over time, it starts to erase the rest of who he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film explores the pressure of being reduced to a \u201clookalike\u201d and the quiet mental toll that comes with it. Celebrity culture and social media flatten identity. Individuality gets replaced by resemblance. Someone with their own personality, history, and achievements becomes a reference point instead of a person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I approached the film with humor to keep it watchable and light on the surface, while allowing discomfort to build underneath. The story is told through a screen recording format, mimicking the way obsession and comparison live online. The film stays in Jack\u2019s first-person point of view as he fixates on the winner of the lookalike contest. He watches the winner\u2019s life improve while his own stays unchanged. Regret, jealousy, and fantasy begin to blur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The humor makes the film accessible, but the focus is on identity loss and quiet unraveling. What starts as a joke becomes a portrait of how easily someone can disappear inside a comparison they never asked for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19244,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-19243","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1","tag-memory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBolin Katie Chen - Parsons Notes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/undergrad\/student-work\/bolin-katie-chen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bolin Katie Chen - Parsons Notes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This film began with a joke. 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